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10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Ron Robertson.md

@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ A CIA staff report filed with a Reuters item of November 4, 1974 records that it
 
 ### Jacobsen's account, 1975
 
-Jacobsen places the tests in the winter of 1975 in a laboratory adjacent to Livermore, in an old wooden World War II barracks, with high-quality lasers fired at a target and magnetic computer program cards placed in a lead container, and has Robertson responsible for security arrangements given Geller's status as a foreign national and his unresolved possible role with the [[Mossad]]. After the second day, she writes, Robertson telephoned [[Kit Green]] at [[Central Intelligence Agency]] headquarters to report that several nuclear weapons engineers had seen "items flying across the room. Lights flashing. A six-inch ball of light, rolling down the hallway," and that one scientist reported a flying orb; Green privately thought the reports sounded like "poltergeist events" and began to investigate whether the scientists were hallucinating.[^1]
+Jacobsen places the tests in the winter of 1975 in a laboratory adjacent to Livermore, in an old wooden World War II barracks, with high-quality lasers fired at a target and magnetic computer program cards placed in a lead container, and writes that the Atomic Energy Commission assigned Robertson "to oversee national security issues between itself, Livermore, and CIA"; she quotes Green that the tests were moved off-site because of "ongoing security issues," Geller being a foreign national whose possible role with the [[Mossad]] was unresolved. After the second day, she writes, Robertson telephoned [[Kit Green]] at [[Central Intelligence Agency]] headquarters to report that several nuclear weapons engineers had seen "items flying across the room. Lights flashing. A six-inch ball of light, rolling down the hallway," and that one scientist reported a flying orb; Green privately thought the reports sounded like "poltergeist events" and began to investigate whether the scientists were hallucinating.[^1]
 
 [[Jim Schnabel]]'s *Remote Viewers* (1997) tells the sequence differently: the Livermore group, led by a physicist he calls [[Peter Crane]], began unofficial after-hours tests in late 1974, and it was Crane who telephoned the CIA analyst Schnabel calls "Richard Kennett," whom the *Grey Lodge Occult Review* identified as Kit Green.[^4]
 
 ### Footnotes
 
-[^1]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown, 2017). Sole source for the barracks, the lead container, the call to Green and the quoted descriptions.
+[^1]: Annie Jacobsen, *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis* (Little, Brown, 2017), pp. 178-180. Sole source for the barracks, the lead container, the call to Green and the quoted descriptions.
 [^2]: Uri Geller and Guy Lyon Playfair, *The Geller Effect* (London: Jonathan Cape, 1986), chapter on scientific research, citing John Wilhelm, *The Search for Superman* (New York: Pocket Books, 1976). PDF at http://www.mbdodd.weebly.com/uploads/1/4/1/6/14162844/the_geller_effect_-_uri_geller_and_guy_lyon_playfair.pdf. Geller is the sole source for the characterization of Wilhelm's quotation.
 [^3]: CIA-RDP79-00999A000200010023-0, archive.org item cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0, https://archive.org/download/cia-readingroom-document-cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0/cia-rdp79-00999a000200010023-0_djvu.txt. Sole source for the call.
 [^4]: Jim Schnabel, *Remote Viewers* (Dell, 1997), as excerpted in Rudy Havenstein, "Dr. Green and the Goblins of Langley," July 11, 2025, https://rudy.substack.com/p/dr-green-and-the-goblins-of-langley, quoting *Grey Lodge Occult Review* 1, no. 5: "The names Richard Kennett, Peter Crane, Mike Russo and Don Kurtis which appear below are pseudonyms employed by Mr. Schnabel."

10 - PEOPLE/(N-S)/Shimon Peres.md

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Peres's rise to influence began in late 1953, when [[David Ben-Gurion]] appointe
 
 As the architect of Israel's nuclear ambitions, Peres was effectively the father of Israel's nuclear program in the mid-1950s. Working under David Ben-Gurion, he believed that Israel needed nuclear weapons as a deterrent against [[Arab countries]]. Understanding the technical requirements, Peres knew that no plutonium weapon could be made without a reprocessing plant, and that its construction was impossible without French commitment.[^2]
 
-Peres also insisted on the creation of a new intelligence agency, initially known as the Office of Special Tasks, to provide security for the burgeoning nuclear operation at [[Dimona]]. This office, handpicked by Peres and led by [[Binyamin Blumberg]], was bureaucratically placed inside the defense ministry and would later become known as [[LAKAM]].[^3]
+Peres also insisted on the creation of a new intelligence agency, initially known as the [[Office of Special Tasks]], to provide security for the nuclear project at [[Dimona]]; its director, [[Binyamin Blumberg]], a former military intelligence officer, was handpicked by Peres, and the office was placed bureaucratically inside the defense ministry. It became known in the mid-1970s as the Science Liaison Bureau, or [[LAKAM]].[^3]
 
 ### International Nuclear Partnerships
 
@@ -50,4 +50,5 @@ Peres's long political career eventually faced a significant setback in 1992, wh
 ### Footnotes
 
 [^1]: Ben-Menashe, Ari. _Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network_. TrineDay, 1992. 
-[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2.
+[^2]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991. Chapter 2.
+[^3]: Hersh, Seymour M. _The Samson Option: Israel\'s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy_. Random House, 1991, p. 62 (creation of the Office of Special Tasks, Blumberg as director) and p. 205 (renamed the Science Liaison Bureau, LAKAM, in the mid-1970s). https://archive.org/details/Sampson_Option